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Porto Santo Line have announced that today’s (Saturday) scheduled sailing of the ‘Lobo Marinho’ is cancelled – I am not sure when the ferry last made the trip between Porto Santo and Madeira? The North Coast of Madeira and Porto Santo remain under a red warning ............
The designers at Macedos Pyrotechnics are using a different approach for the New Year 2014/15 display in Funchal, based on massive use of smaller sized fireworks as illustrated above. Carlos Macedo, in an interview in the Diario today, explains "the show this year will be ............
The Diario reveals today that Madeira has recently lost five cargo plane links. On top of the loss of the ferry link to the mainland some while ago and the possible consequences of the proposed privatization of TAP, the newspaper questions what will happen to the island – it claims ............
I was reading an article recently that claims that the way that silt accumulates in the port could fundamentally change due to the newly re-arranged outlets into the port of Funchal – and affect the way the cruise-liners negotiate the harbour. Unfortunately the arrival of a new iPad ............
Macedos Pyrotechnics has been awarded the contract for the fireworks next New Year’s Eve in Funchal, with a proposal that nearly triples the amount of fireworks seen last year-end. Despite being the most expensive proposal of the three considered at very close to €860 000, ............
The Praça do Povo, or “People’s Square”, built along the Funchal seafront, will open tomorrow (Friday), announced the President of the Government last weekend, during the inauguration of the new Praça da Autonomia and intervention work in the final sections of the ............
The Diario reports that the highly charged subject of Chinese investment in Portugal was brought into the open again last week, after the former president of Jerónimo Martins, Alexandre Soares dos Santos, said that he “hated” Chinese investment, claiming that it “brings ............
Last Friday the civic movement “Somos Porto Santo” organised a protest against the “conditions of isolation” imposed on the island of Porto Santo. The loss of the last direct flight between Lisbon and Porto Santo during the summer was the main reason behind the civic association ............